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Local publisher seeks true-to-life juvenile fiction When Steven Roxburgh began his career in publishing at Farrar, Straus and Giroux in New York three decades ago, the icons of popular fiction for young adults were privileged, sports-car-driving career teens like Nancy Drew. There’s no market, he was told, for serious, gritty juvenile fiction. But Roxburgh had … Read more

Let’s really support our soldiers

“The time for dissent is passed once the war is declared,” one Asheville resident wrote in a recent letter to the editor of a local publication, echoing the sentiments of many who fear for the lives of their loved ones in this coming war. “Don’t undermine the morale of our troops now that they’re deployed,” … Read more

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